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B. T. MESKER & T. O. ARBEGUST.

BUILDING FRONT.

No. 460,478. Patented Sept. 29, 1891.

Fla-5- WITNESSES:

ATTORNEY WASNINBTGN, n. c,

UNITED STATES PATENT- OFFICE.

BERNARD T. MESKER AND THOMAS O. ARBEGUST, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNORS TO MESKER & BROTHER, OF SAME PLACE.

BUILDING-FRONT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 460,478, dated September 29, 1891.

Application filed November 20, 1889. Serial No. 331,015. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, BERNARD T. MESKER and THOMAS O. ARBEGUST, of St. Louis, Missouri, have jointly made a new and useful Im- 5 provement in Building-Fronts, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The improvement relates to vestibular building-fronts; and it consists in the means whereby such fronts can be readily and ecol nomicallyconstructed,substantiallyas is hereinafter set forth and claimed, aided by the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in whicha Figure 1 is afront elevation of a buildingfront embodying our improvement. Figs. 2,

3, and 4 are horizontal sections thereof, disclosing the same in the different positions of which it is capable of adjustment. Fig. 5 is an enlarged horizontal section showing the construct-ion at one of the inner corners of the vestibule, and Fig. 6 is a similar view showing the construction at one of the outer corners of the vestibule.

A, Figs. 1 and 2, represents a building-front .of the custon1ary description, saving as it may be modified or supplemented by the improvement under consideration. The vestibule B is shown in full; but the main portion of the front and which contains the vestibule is shown in parts 0 C only, as its nature is well understood.

D D represent the posts or columns at the outer corners, respectively, of the vestibule, and E E respectively represent the posts at the inner corners of the vestibule.

F F represent the vestibulesa-shes at the sides, respectively, thereof.

G G represent the vestibule-doors, and H H the front sashes at the sides, respectively, of the vestibule.

The invention is carried out by making the vestibule adjustable, so that it can be widened and made shallower or be narrowed and deepened.

In Fig. 3 is represented a vestibule of a certain width,.in Fig. 2 a vestibule narrower and deeper than in Fig. 3, and in Fig. 4 a vestibule yet narrower and deeper than that of Fig. 2 is disclosed. In the form shown in Fig. 4 the columns D D are brought nearer together, and in the forms shown in Figs. 2 and 3 they are placed farther apart than in Fig. 4. WVhen the columns D D are thus brought nearer together, the front A is narrowed, and when the columns are spaced farther apart the front is widened. This adjustableness of the vestibule is accomplished as follows: cZ represents a stop, which is removably fastened to the post D in the form of the vestibule as disclosed in Fig. 2. The corner f of the sash F comes against the stop cl, and the cornerf' of the sash F against the back cl of the post I), and the front face f of the sash F comes against the projecting edge (Z of the side (2- of the post- D, by which means the outer edge of the sash F is fixed in place. The opposite or inneredge of the sash F is held as follows: The post E, Figs. 1 and 4, like the post D, has a removably-attached stop 6, against which the cornerf of the sash F comes, and the corner f of the sash comes against the face 6 of the post E, by which means the inner edge of the sash F is held in place.

111 the form of the vestibule as shown in Fig. 4. the stop d is set farther away from the edge (Z and the outer edge of the sash is held as before, between the stop and the edge 61 The sash, however, is arranged at a different angle to the front. The inner edge of the sash is held, as before, between the stop 6 and the face 6 of the post E.

In the form of the vestibule as shown in Fig. 3 the sash F is arranged, as shown, at a stilldifferent angle, and its-outer edge and its inner edge are respectively held as before. The stop (Z is set nearer to the edge cl? than in the form of the vestibule shown in Fig. 2, to suit the changed position of the sash.

In place of shifting the stop cl different stops may be used that is, with each new inclination of the sash a new stop may be used and attached to the post D to confine the sash.

IVe claim- The combination of the posts D, having projecting edges (2 and stops d, removably secured to back pieces cl in said posts, the distantly-arranged posts E, having removably-attached stops upon their inner sides, and the sashes adapted to engage said stops, substantially as set forth.

Witness our hands this 21st day of October, 1889.

BERNARD T. MESKER. THOMAS O. ARBEGUST. Witnesses:

O. D. MOODY,

D. W. A. SANFORD. 

